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f you were to walk into a public school primary classroom one day, and into the same grade level classroom in, say, a classical Christian school, you would see two entirely different things. And you wouldn't have to wait to notice some of the differences. There would be certain things evident immediately. In the classical school, you would likely see students sitting in straight rows of desks either listening to a teacher or working on an assignment they have been given—the same assignment they are all working on at the same time. In the public school classroom, the students would be sitting at long tables or busy at learning centers, many of them working on different assignments. After a few minutes, you would notice not only the different physical structure of the classroom and location of the children, but the different way the teacher interacts with the students. In the classical school, the teacher is likely to be standing in front of the class guiding the students, whereas the public school teacher will likely be roaming the room, making sure everyone is working on something and trying to keep order. While the classical teacher is clearly running the classroom, this is looked down upon in public schools. In fact, if there is any image that symbolizes modern progressive education, it is this: a teacher sitting with her students on the floor. Is this all coincidental or is there something unseen behind these surface differences? Behind the obvious physical contrasts, there is a very different idea of what education consists of and a different view of the nature of the child. More likely than not, the classical school sees it as its job to teach a specific body of basic

Heading Letter from Goes the Here Editor

"In classical education, the school's job is to pass on a culture to the next generation." skills and cultural knowledge—one very similar to other such schools—through an organized curriculum, and it sees the child as a potential adult who needs to be formed in order to take his place in society as a responsible adult with obligations to himself and others. The public school sees its job entirely differently. It has no specific body of knowledge it must pass on to children—a specific curriculum— and is less concerned with a child's mastery of a set of basic skills. A classical homeschool would be slightly different than both of these, but it would share with the classical its basic principles, however differently applied to the home. Two different philosophies underlay each of these cases: In classical education, the school's job is to pass on a culture to the next generation. Under modern progressive education, the school's job is to change the culture or fit children to the existing one. And there are also two views of the nature of children: For classical education, children are adults to be formed. For modern education, they are children to be "developed." The differences in what we see make perfect sense when we know the philosophy behind it.

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THE CLASSICAL TEACHER

CONTENTS FEATURED ARTICLES

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Spring 2014 LATIN, GREEK, & FRENCH

Letter From the Editor by Martin Cothran The History of the Natural Method of Teaching Latin, Part II by Henry Wingate The War Against Knowledge by Martin Cothran Why Should Christians Read the Pagan Classics? Reason #8: Philosophy by Cheryl Lowe The Critical Thinking Skills Hoax by Martin Cothran Factose Intolerance by Cheryl Lowe Crying to Dream Again an essay by Magdalena Collum Peter Jackson's The Hobbit by Brett Vaden

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Elementary Greek New Grades 3+ Greek Alphabet Book Grades 5+ Greek Wall & Desk Charts New Prima Latina & Supplements Grades 1-4 Latina Christiana & Supplements Grades 3-6 Latin Recitation CD/DVD New First Form Latin Series & Supplements Grades 5-12 Henle Latin Series, NLE Prep Guides Grades 8-12 Latin Supplements: Roots of English, Book of Roots, Latin Copybook

First Start French I & II

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Cursive, Latin Grammar for the Grammar Stage, Lingua Biblica

CLASSICAL CORE CURRICULUM

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Lesson Plans by Subject New Curriculum Packages:

LOGIC & RHETORIC

Jr. K-7th Grade Jr. K-7th Grade

Full-Year Packages, Read-Aloud Sets, Summer Reading,

Simply Classical (Special Needs) Memoria Press Curriculum Map

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and Science & Enrichment Sets

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Traditional Logic I & II Aristotle's Material Logic Classical Rhetoric Logic and Rhetoric Supplements:

Jr. Kindergarten & Phonics: Alphabet Books, Coloring Books, First Start Reading, Classical Phonics, Book of Crafts, Alphabet Flashcards

Kindergarten - Second Grade: Numbers Books, Enrichment Guides,

New American Cursive 1-3

Art Cards, Composition & Sketchbooks, Alphabet Charts, Copybooks

LITERATURE, GRAMMAR, & WRITING

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English Grammar (Grammar Stage)New Teach Yourself Cursive New Introduction to Composition Poetry Anthologies New Literature Study Guides Classical Composition

Grades 3-12

Figures of Speech, How to Read a Book

Grades 1-8 Grades 4-12

Grades 9+ Grades 10-12 Grades 3-8

AMERICAN / MODERN

200 Questions About American History, Grades 3-8 Geography I & II, Geography I Review, States & Capitals, U.S. Review, Artner Reader's Guide, The Story of the Thirteen Colonies & the Great Republic

SCIENCE

Book of Astronomy, Book of Insects, Grades 3+ What's That Bird?, Book of Trees, J. H. Tiner Series New

CLASSICAL EDUCATION RESOURCES Grades 6+

Grades 3-8

Dorothy Mills Histories

Grades 6+

Ancient World, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, & Middle Ages

The War of the Jews New The City of God Christian Studies I-IV Christian Studies Wall Maps

Grades 3-12

Introduction to Classical Studies, Ancient Wall Maps, Timeline Set, Horatius at the Bridge D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Famous Men Series

The Trojan War, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, The Aeneid for Boys and Girls New The Divine Comedy, On Obligations, New The Republic & the Laws New

Grades 3+

Rome, Greece, the Middle Ages, and Modern Times

Grades 5-Adult

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Grades 9-12

CHRISTIAN STUDIES

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Grades 7-12 Grades 9-12

Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Socrates Meets Jesus, Aristotle's Rhetoric,

Jr. K-12th Grade

PRIMARY YEARS

Grades 5-8

Grades 6+ Grades 10+

19 Saving Western Civilization DVDs 26 Memoria Press Online Academy Now Enrolling! 36 Classical Latin School Association (CLSA) 55 Homeschool Convention Calendar 2014 56 Teacher Training Conference 2014 Register Today! 23, 24, 37 Liberal Arts Supplements

The Great Tradition, The Trivium, The Latin-Centered Curriculum, The Great Books, Climbing Parnassus, The Story of the World (vol. I-IV), The Well-Trained Mind, The Well-Educated Mind, Student's Guide to the Disciplines

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Elementary Greek Program by Christine Gatchell, Grades 4+

Choose from Years One, Two, or Three: Text $18.95 ea. | Workbook $12.95 ea. CD $12.95 ea. | Flashcards $12.95 ea.

Finally, a Greek text that’s both simple and substantial! Designed to be used as a full course for teaching children as young as third grade, Elementary Greek may also serve as a selfteaching program for teens and adults. No previous knowledge is necessary, and each concept is covered thoroughly and reviewed regularly throughout the course. Thirty weeks of daily lessons ensure a complete school year of brief, incremental lessons with no additional planning. Year One of this course introduces the Greek alphabet, basic vocabulary, grammar, and translation. The accompanying workbook is a vital resource that provides practice and application for each step of the way. An audio companion CD is available to aid in pronunciation of individual letters, words, grammar paradigms, and passages. The set also includes ﬂashcards that cover every vocabulary word used in the text.

Greek Alphabet Book by Cheryl Lowe, Grades 3+ Student $15.00 | Key $10.00

Though the Greek alphabet is similar to our English alphabet, it is also diﬀerent enough to be a major impediment to the study of Greek. Delving into the Greek grammar and learning the alphabet at the same time is overwhelming for almost everyone. Give yourself the time to master the Greek letters and become comfortable with them before you plunge into Greek. Memoria Press’ Greek Alphabet program is a tour of the Greek letters, their formation, and sounds. A page is devoted to each letter and includes a letter diagram with arrows showing proper formation, printing lines showing placement of letters above and below the lines, letters to trace and copy, interesting facts and hints to help remember the letter’s sound, and questions. Each lesson consists of three letters, a review page, and a quiz.

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This set, made up of two alphabet charts, makes a great visual aid for the teacher, classroom, and home. One chart has the upper- and lowercase letters of the Greek alphabet with their names in English and Greek. The second chart lists diphthongs, accent marks, pronunciation helps, and syllable names. These charts come in two sizes—posters for the classroom and small charts for individual student use.

Greek

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Latin • Logic • Phonics • Penmanship • Composition • Literature • History • Math • Science • Bible

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ou can now oﬀer your child a complete and comprehensive classical Christian education. Although the program itself is new, the ideas and practices have been in use at Highlands Latin School for over a decade. The content your child will study is the curriculum all children in good schools once studied, only made easier to teach. It is a curriculum in which your student will learn the knowledge that once characterized a cultured person, and the core ideas and concepts of what was once called the “Christian West.” It is a study of our cultural heritage based on a careful selection of texts and focused on the classical model of structure and repetition that ensures mastery in all subject areas, from language to mathematics.

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Iliad & Odyssey Aeneid States & Capitals Geography American History Math Christian Studies Book of Insects Book of Astronomy What's That Bird? Book of Trees

Classical Core Curriculum

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Jr. Kindergarten

Kindergarten

$140 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $45 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

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• Jr. Kindergarten Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Counting With Numbers • Inside and Outside • Prayers for Children • Alphabet Books 1 & 2 • Coloring Books: Alphabet & Numbers • Richard Scarry's Mother Goose • Big Thoughts for Little People (Devotional) • Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Poetry) • Memoria Press Manuscript Wall Charts • Alphabet Flashcards • The Book of Crafts

• Kindergarten Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Kindergarten Enrichment Guide • Copybook I • Composition & Sketchbook • The Golden Children's Bible • Christian Liberty Nature Reader (Book K) • Animal Alphabet Coloring Book • First Start Reading: A, B, C, D & Teacher Guide • Classical Phonics & SRA Phonics 1 • Primary Phonics Readers (20 books total) • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Part 1), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • Numbers Books 1 & 2 • Soft and White, Fun in the Sun, & Scamp and Tramp • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Kindergarten Art Cards

Supplemental Read-Aloud Program $340.00 A set of 34 classic picture books chosen for their beauty in prose and illustration. A great addition to any children's library, one book is read aloud and discussed each week in Jr. Kindergarten.

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $275 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $295 | Supplemental Science & Enrichment Set $325

Jr. K

Reading & Phonics

Christian Studies Alphabet Books (p. 38) Alphabet Coloring Book (p. 38) Richard Scarry's Mother Goose Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Prayers for Children Big Thoughts for Little People

SRA Phonics 1 Classical Phonics (p. 38) First Start Reading (p. 38) Animal Alphabet Coloring American Language Readers Nature Reader K Primary Phonics Readers

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 47)

1st

SRA Phonics 2 Classical Phonics (p. 38) 1st Grade Literature Set (p. 50) Supplemental readers

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 47)

Latin

2nd

SRA Phonics 3 Classical Phonics (p. 38) 2nd Grade Literature Set (p. 50)

Classical Core Curriculum

Prima Latina (p. 12)

The Golden Children's Bible (p. 47)

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1st Grade

2nd Grade

$325 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $105 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $275 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$370 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $130 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $340 Continuing MP Student Set $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• First Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First Grade Enrichment Guide NEW • Copybook II • Composition & Sketchbook • New American Cursive 1 • The Golden Children's Bible • Classical Phonics • SRA Phonics 2 • Rod & Staff Beginning Arithmetic 1: Student (Parts 1-2), Teacher, & Practice Sheets • First Grade Literature: Study Guides w/ Novels • A Little House Christmas Treasury • Christmas in the Big Woods • Winter on the Farm • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • First Grade Art Cards • Alphabet Wall Poster

• Second Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Prima Latina complete set • Prima Latina Copybook • Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems • Composition & Sketchbook • New American Cursive 2 • The Golden Children's Bible • SRA Phonics 3 • Rod & Staff Math 2: Student (Units 1-5), Teacher, & Blacklines • Classical Phonics • Second Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • 1/2" ruled penmanship tablet • Second Grade Art Cards

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $290 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305

Supplements:

Read-Aloud Set $290 | Read-Aloud Set with Poetry $305 | Supplemental Science & Enrichment Set $350 (Complete) $250 (Continuing)

Writing & Penmanship

Math Numbers Coloring Book (p. 38) Counting With Numbers Inside and Outside

Alphabet Books (p. 38)

Copybook I (p. 39) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 39)

Copybook II (p. 47) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 39) New American Cursive 1 (p. 40)

Prima Latina Copybook (p. 12) Copybook Cursive (p. 39) Composition & Sketchbook (p. 39) New American Cursive 2 (p. 40)

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Enrichment Book of Crafts (p. 38) Alphabet Flashcards (p. 38)

Numbers Books (p. 39) Rod & Staff Math 1, Part 1

Art Cards (p. 39) Kindergarten Enrichment (p. 39)

Rod & Staff Math 1, Parts 1-2

Art Cards (p. 39) First Grade Enrichment (p. 38) Alphabet Wall Poster (p. 39)

Rod & Staff Math 2 Art Cards (p. 39)

Classical Core Curriculum

$400

3rd Grade

4th Grade

$400 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Third Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • Latina Christiana I complete set + Review Worksheets • Third Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • D'Aulaires' Greek Myths set • Christian Studies I set • New American Cursive 3 • States & Capitals set • Astronomy set • Rod & Staff Math 3 set • Rod & Staff Spelling 4 set • English Grammar Recitation & Workbook I set • Introduction to Composition set • Poetry for the Grammar Stage • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever • Timeline Program NEW!

• Fourth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First Form Latin complete set • Fourth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of Rome set • Christian Studies II set • Geography of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe set • United States Review set • The Book of Insects set • Rod & Staff Math 4 set • Rod & Staff Spelling 5 set • English Grammar Recitation Workbook 2 set • Classical Composition: The Fable Stage set

Supplements: Supplemental Read Aloud Program: Novels (11 books) $150.00 | Picture Books (25 books) $300.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 1 (before 4th grade; p. 23)

*included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 47)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $120.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 2 (before 5th grade; p. 23)

Literature The Moffats Farmer Boy Charlotte's Web (p. 50)

Latina Christiana I (p. 13)

Greek Myths (p. 44)

Christian Studies I (p. 47)

First Form Latin (p. 16)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 44)

Christian Studies II (p. 47)

Lassie Come-Home Heidi The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (p. 51)

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 44)

Christian Studies III (p. 47)

Adam of the Road Robin Hood The Door in the Wall King Arthur (p. 51)

6th

5th

3rd

Classical & Christian Studies

4th

Latin & Greek

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.99

Second Form Latin (p. 16)

Third Form Latin (p. 17) Greek Alphabet Book (p. 4)

Classical Core Curriculum

Famous Men of Greece Horatius at the Bridge (pp. 41, 44)

Timeline Set (p. 41)

Christian Studies IV (p. 47)

The Hobbit Anne of Green Gables The Bronze Bow The Trojan War (p. 51)

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$450

5th Grade

6th Grade

$425 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

$450 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only)

• Fifth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First or Second Form Latin complete set • Fifth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of the Middle Ages set • Christian Studies III set • Geography II set • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 5 set • Rod and Staff Spelling 6 & English 5 sets • What's That Bird? set • Exploring the History of Medicine set • Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages: Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.99 *included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 47)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $100.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 3 (before 6th grade; p. 23)

English

Spelling

Writing

• Sixth Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First, Second, or Third Form Latin complete set • Sixth Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Famous Men of Greece set, Horatius at the Bridge, The Trojan War set • Christian Studies IV set • Rod and Staff Arithmetic 6 set • Rod and Staff Spelling 7 & English 6 set • The Story of the Thirteen Colonies and The Great Republic, 200 Questions About American History, & Everything You Need to Know About American History Homework • Book of Trees set, Exploring the World of Biology set • Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage set • Greek Alphabet Book set

Resources Included in Previous Year Packages:

Timeline Program* $39.95 | Poetry for the Grammar Stage* $24.95 | English Grammar Recitation* $9.95 | Golden Children's Bible** $17.99 *included in 3rd grade package

**included in K-2nd grade packages (also sold on p. 47)

Supplements: Read-Aloud Program $50.00 Summer Reading: Story of the World, Vol. 4 (before 7th grade; p. 23)

Modern St.

Math

Science

English Grammar, Workbook I (p. 10)

Rod & Staff Spelling 4

Introduction to Composition (p. 48)

States & Capitals (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 3

Book of Astronomy (p. 37)

English Grammar, Workbook II (p. 10)

Rod & Staff Spelling 5

Classical Composition: The Fable Stage (p. 54) Writing, Year 1

Geography I: The Middle East, North Africa, & Europe (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 4

Book of Insects (p. 37)

Rod & Staff English 5

Rod & Staff Spelling 6

Classical Composition: The Narrative Stage (p. 54) Writing, Year 2

Geography II: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Oceania, & the Americas (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 5

What's That Bird? The History of Medicine (p. 37)

Rod & Staff English 6

Rod & Staff Spelling 7

The Thirteen Colonies and the Great Republic (p. 25)

Rod & Staff Math 6

The Book of Trees (p. 37)

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Classical Composition: The Chreia/Maxim Stage (p. 54)

Classical Core Curriculum

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7th Grade The Classical Core Curriculum has now graduated to the upper school. In the important step from the 6th grade to the 7th, students need to take the basic skills and knowledge they have mastered in the lower elementary grades and begin converting them into a more advanced command of skills subjects like Latin and math, and into a deeper understanding of history and literature. Memoria Press’ new 7th Grade Core Curriculum package does just this. Students begin advanced study in Latin grammar, and, having completed arithmetic, begin their study of pre-algebra. Having studied the basic characters and events in ancient history, they begin their study of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In literature, they begin their study of Shakespeare. And if your student missed some or all of the Classical Core Curriculum before this? No worries. They can begin or continue Latin where they are and still pick up the basic outlines in ancient history and literature in preparation for Homer. In addition, the Shakespeare plays begin in the 2nd semester, allowing the student time to get ready. Don’t let your student miss out on the only complete and fully developed classical curriculum available.

7th Grade $475 Complete Set (all books + Lesson Plans) $150 Consumable Books Set (for additional students) $30 Lesson Plans for One Year (only) • Seventh Grade Curriculum: Complete Lesson Plans for One Year • First, Second, Third, or Fourth Form Latin complete set • Seventh Grade Literature: Study Guide Sets w/ Novels • Book of the Ancient Greeks set • Book of the Ancient World set • Iliad & Odyssey set w/ Novels • Poetry for the Seventh Grade • College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra • Rod and Staff English 7 set • Geography: Exploring & Mapping the World set • Exploring Planet Earth set • Classical Composition: Refutation - Conﬁ rmation Stage set

English Grammar Recitation Grades 3+ English Grammar Recitation $9.95 Memoria Press’ English Grammar Recitation is a manual of approximately 150 grammar questions, answers, and examples designed to be studied and memorized much like a catechism. It is perfect for the serious Latin student who needs an English grammar program that coordinates with his study of Latin over the ﬁ ve years of Latina Christiana through the Form Series. The contents of English Grammar Recitation are thus divided into ﬁ ve sections, each of which has a corresponding workbook, shown opposite, providing thirty lessons to be completed in one year. Each two-page lesson covers two to three grammar questions along with practice exercises. English Grammar Recitation also covers common capitalization and punctuation rules by means of concise style sheets. Brief exercises, including some diagramming, do accompany these grammar questions; however, the mastery of the English grammar catechism is the primary goal of this course, not its application. English Grammar Recitation also covers capitalization and punctuation through recitation. Students recite the rules and demonstrate their correct use through dictation of model sentences. It is hoped that this course can be completed in much less time than the typical English grammar course, leaving more time for composition and Latin.

English Grammar Recitation

Workbook I (Grades 3+)

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Workbook II (Grades 4+)

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

Workbook III (Grades 5+)

Student $11.95 Teacher $12.95

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“With weaker talents … one must indeed follow their bent by guiding them exclusively towards the goal that their nature suggests. They will then do better the only thing they can do.” ~ Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, II:VIII ~

Emphasize the Struggling Student’s Strengths Within the Context of a Classical Education

s you teach the struggling student and help him with his weaker areas, look for his stronger interests and abilities. Does he love to draw? Does he long to write stories? Does he delve deeply into areas of scientific or historical research? Does he enjoy developing patterns or solving math problems? Does he have a gift for languages? In his classical education, emphasize these areas in his studies, as this will improve his ability to learn and to find areas for lifelong service. “Schools sometimes focus on the deficits in students’ lives, and not their abilities. That is a major mistake ….”[1] Foster his interests with special activities, art or history camps, and field trips. Look for volunteering opportunities in these areas when the child is older. [1] Dr. Temple Grandin and Kate Duffy, Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism (Shawnee Mission: Autism Asperger Publishing Co., 2004), 55.

Cheryl Swope, M.Ed. has homeschooled her 18-year-old adopted special-needs twins from their infancy with classical Christian education. She holds a lifetime K-12 state teaching certiﬁcate in the areas of Behavior Disorders and Learning Disabilities. She has worked with special-needs children, youth, and adults for over thirty years. Cheryl is the author of Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child.

In our home we explain to our special-needs teens that their areas of service, satisfaction, or employment will be found where their strongest interests meet their greatest abilities. Interest alone will not suffice, nor will ability if interest is absent. We have used the notion of “electives,” but within a classical context. (In other words, we do not offer woodworking or sewing as an elective. Such activities are reserved for leisure.) We insist on classical content areas, especially Latin, mathematics, literature, and music theory. Remember that Latin serves as a unifying all-in-one course of study and can remain prominent in any child’s coursework, even if lower levels of materials are needed. Within an education in the liberal arts, Western civilization, and the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, each student may begin to choose areas of emphasis in his later years for study and for service to others.

For inspiration, stories, and suggestions on helping children find their strengths and areas for service within the context of a classical education, see Simply Classical: A Beautiful Education for Any Child from Memoria Press.

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Prima Latina:

An Introduction to Christian Latin by Leigh Lowe Grades 1-4 “We have found that students who start with Prima Latina are much more likely not only to continue Latin, but to love it!” Are you looking for a gentle introduction to Latin and a course that prepares your young student for a more advanced study of the language? Prima Latina is specifically designed for students and teachers with no Latin background. This course was developed for children in 1st-4th grades who are still becoming familiar with English grammar and wish to learn Latin at a slower pace. Its goal is to teach and reinforce an understanding of the basic parts of speech while introducing Latin. It benefits the student by teaching him half of the vocabulary in Latina Christiana I and grounding him in the fundamental concepts of English grammar, the key to Latin study.

Prima Latina $90.90 complete set

$34.95 basic set

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The grammar lessons are set forth in a form appropriate for primary grades. The review lessons that follow each unit provide the consistent review needed to master Latin. With clear explanations and easy-to-read lessons in a two-color format, Prima Latina is perfect for those teachers and parents who would like to start their students on an early study of Christian Latin.

(student, teacher, CD)

Student $15.00 | Teacher $15.00 | CD $5.95 | DVDs $45.00 | Flashcards $14.95

Student Book

• 25 lessons + 5 review lessons • Latin vocabulary words with corresponding English derivatives • Latin prayers • Grammar skills appropriate for primary grades • Consistent review

Teacher Manual

• Student book w/ answers keyed • Tests

Pronunciation CD

• Complete verbal pronunciation • Four Lingua Angelica songs

DVDs

• 3 discs, 9 hours (15-20 min./ lesson) • Comprehensive teaching by Leigh Lowe • Recitation & review, vocabulary practice, and explanation of derivatives • On-screen notes, diagrams, & examples • Self-instructive format

Flashcards

Which Latin program is right for your student? (page 21) “Order Leigh Lowe’s Prima Latina, along with the accompanying teacher’s guide and supplementary CD.” - Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise “If you are beginning Latin and have no Latin background, this is the curriculum for you.” - Julie A., www.homeschoolreviews.com

• Vocabulary with derivatives • Latin sayings • Conjugations & Declensions

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Latin Supplements

Prima Latina Copybook New American Cursive Grades 1-4

$14.95 Help your children practice their Latin while developing their penmanship skills. Includes a cursive vocabulary practice page from each Prima Latina lesson and a cursive Latin prayer practice page for each Prima review lesson.

Latin

Lingua Angelica:

Latin Songs & Prayers Song Book $9.95 Music CD $11.95

Latin prayers and hymns, beautifully sung by a six-voice Gregorian chant choir. Perfect enrichment for the young or beginning Latin student. Full program for First Form students on page 17.

Latina Christiana I:

Review Worksheets by Brenda Janke Grades 3-6 Worksheets $9.95 | Answer Key $5.00

These supplemental review worksheets will help your students master the grammar and vocabulary they are learning in Latina Christiana I. Contains 1-2 pages of cumulative review for each LCI lesson.

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Latina Christiana I

Introduction to Christian Latin by Cheryl Lowe Grades 3-6 Latina Christiana I is, quite simply, the best Latin grammar course available for beginning students. Cheryl Lowe’s clear explanations, easy instructions, and step-by-step approach have led thousands of teachers and students to declare, “I love Latin!”

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Each lesson consists of a grammar form, ten vocabulary words, and a Latin saying that teaches students about their Christian or classical heritage. Five review lessons help ensure that your student has mastered the material. In addition, every lesson includes simple English derivatives of Latin words to help build English vocabulary. Exercises reinforce memory work and teach grammar in incremental steps through simple translation. Grammar coverage includes 1st-2nd declension nouns, 1st-2nd conjugation verbs, 1st-2nd declension adjectives, the irregular verb to be, and 1st-2nd person pronouns. The Teacher Manual includes a complete copy of the student book with overlaid answers and provides detailed weekly lesson plans, comprehensive teaching instructions, tests, weekly quizzes, and keys. The thirty lessons can be completed in a year for young students or in less time for older students. Move straight to First Form Latin after LC I (see p. 16). “I have taught my own children using your LC books and Henle, and yours is the best curriculum available.” - V.B., Latin teacher "The content, excellent quality, and organized layout make this an impressive beginning course ..." - CHC "You make it so easy and understandable. I cannot commend you enough! Thanks for all you've done to make Latin accessible ..." - L.F., homeschooling parent

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In the first part of this article,

we discussed the origins of the modern

Natural/Direct Method of teaching Latin in the unsuccessful attempt to teach modern languages by downplaying the traditional student memorization of the complicated grammatical forms and the emphasis on written translation exercises in favor of conversational methods of instruction and student response.

argely because of its lack of success in teaching modern languages in the 1920s, the method began to die out as a way of teaching modern languages. But in a curious development, a number of classical language teachers around this time theorized that it might be used to teach a dead language. W.H.D. Rouse was given credit for first applying the Natural/Direct Method to the teaching of Latin and for first popularizing it for this purpose. A brilliant linguist and the translater of popular editions of both the Iliad and Odyssey, Rouse became Headmaster of the Perse School at Cambridge and, from 1902 to 1928, conducted the most sustained experiment in the use of the Natural/Direct Method to teach Latin that made him the method’s greatest publicist. He saw the conversational method of instruction as a way to address the problem of boys who saw the work of grammar and translation as “an unmitigated grind.” He conducted his Latin classes in accordance with pure Natural Method standards, with no English permitted.

The History of the Natural Method of Teaching Latin, Part II

Rouse was an able publicist and through the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching (now the Association for Latin Teaching), he created a vehicle through which he could spread his message throughout England and beyond. His flair for acting allowed him to present an engaging demonstration of the Natural Method in action to classroom visitors. But throughout the experiment, two questions dogged Rouse: First, there were questions related to the objective assessment of the ability of Perse students compared to students in more traditional schools. Rouse made the questions harder to answer because of his noted dislike of testing and would not let his students take the annual Board of Education examinations. He steadfastly refused to allow any evaluation of the results of his experiment. Second, there were questions about whether his methods could be successfully replicated in other classrooms. As C.W.E. Peckett remarked, “When asked [to explain how they taught the method], they could only answer, ‘Come and see

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some of our lessons, then you will know.’ Many seems the insurmountable problem of the twopeople came to their lessons and thought them year time constraint most Latin students face. amazingly effective. Then they went away and In addition, can it ever make sense to deny a tried the method in their own classrooms: and student, in learning anything, his most valuable failed utterly.” learning tool—his native language? Andrew Lang once asserted that “Dr. Rouse’s Finally, the Natural/Direct Method fares method is an admirable method, but only a very poorly in comparison to the grammar translation clever man, I am afraid, can employ it.” method in terms of the major goals of Latin The British government seems to have noticed instruction, whether it is an acquaintance with the problem of the method’s dependence on the Roman literature, the training and disciplining of skill of the teacher, and in a 1923 government the mind that the complex, precise Latin affords, committee report, concluded: “The Direct the goal of understanding English grammar more Method, though in the early stages it has proved thoroughly, or helping in the development of a to be in many respects successful when employed larger and more nuanced English vocabulary. The by specially competent teachers, is not suitable time that must be devoted during the first two for general adoption.” As if in confirmation of years to learning basic Latin conversation is time this assessment, within two years of Rouse’s not spent on these instructional goals. retirement, the experiment was over, and Perse For these reasons, it is difficult to view the returned to the method that had been used there Natural/Direct Method as a viable instructional prior to Rouse’s headmastership. method for the teaching of Latin. Any evaluation of the efficacy of the Natural/ Direct Method of Latin instruction must take into account three considerations: the historical record of its use, the soundness of its fundamental tenets, and its compatibility with the generally accepted goals of Latin instruction. First, conditions more conducive to success than those obtained at Perse would be hard to imagine. Despite its competent and Can it ever energetic teachers devoted to the method make sense to and a supportive British government, the method was still found wanting. Tied so deny a student, firmly to individual advocates, Natural Method programs seldom outlast the in learning tenure of those individuals. anything, his Second, the most basic idea behind the method is so counter-intuitive that it most valuable requires a great leap of faith to embrace it. The position that by learning to “think learning tool— in Latin” one can progress more rapidly his native toward an ability to read ancient Latin literature is an unproven theory and even language? if true would still leave unsolved what

Henry Wingate spent his professional career as a librarian, working for the Library of Congress, Western Carolina University, and the University of Virginia for twenty-five years. He retired as the Director of the Darden School Library. He holds an MLS from Catholic University and an MBA from the University of Virginia. He has been a private Latin tutor for homeschooled children since his retirement. Mr. Wingate's article "The Natural Method of Teaching Latin: Its Origins, Rationale, and Prospects" appeared in vol. 106, no. 3 (2013) issue of Classical World.

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The History of the Natural Method of Teaching Latin, Part II

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A couple of years ago, I was sitting down on a Sunday morning reading my local paper.

was reading a story about the “new” things happening in education. One of the “new” things happening, said the story, was that they were going to start getting rid of “rote memorization” and putting more emphasis on “creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking.” I remember putting the paper down and telling my wife, who was cleaning up the breakfast dishes, “Dear, It’s coming back.” “What’s coming back?” “It.” “What’s It? I don’t read minds, you know.” She’s always saying this, my wife. That she can’t read minds. She is under the impression that I think she should know what I’m thinking without my having to explain it. I ask her if it wasn’t one of the conditions of marrying her that she be able to read my mind, at which point she stops and, holding a soapcovered knife she is in the middle of washing, she gives me a blank stare. I obediently go back to my paper, impressed with the soap-covered knife—and with her stare, which is about as impressive as the knife. By the term “It,” of course, I mean the Education Reform Monster who goes into hibernation and comes out every twenty-five years or so to eat our schools. I explain this to my wife.

“Oh,” she said. “Okay,” and went on doing the dishes. We had already been through one attack of the Monster when our children were young. We had not originally intended to homeschool our children some twenty-five years ago when we sent our first child, a boy, to the local public school. nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and other K classic children’s literature. They did the things indergarten was not bad. He learned

in class that you would expect them to do in a kindergarten class. They learned to recognize letters and do some simple arithmetic. But by the next year, our school began to change. Our state legislature had passed a sweeping education reform program the year before that was influenced by the reform that had been making the news around that time. It was called “outcomes-based education.” A court case had been filed a few years previously to try to correct inequities in school funding from one district to another, but when it got to our State Supreme Court, the justices ruled that our whole system of schooling had to be changed. In came the education consultants. Educational experts from impressive places descended on our Commonwealth to advise our state’s lawmakers on what they should do to change our schools.

Martin Cothran, a writer and teacher, is the director of the Classical Latin School Association, editor of the Classical Teacher magazine, and the author of Memoria Press' Traditional Logic, Material Logic, Classical Rhetoric, and Lingua Biblica.

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The result was a wholesale transformation of what school was for. The education system was turned upside down. By the time our oldest child had reached first grade, the new educational regime was in place, and the new education ideas were being implemented. I had taught our oldest how to read, so when he arrived in first grade, we figured this would stand him in pretty good stead; the teacher would be impressed, and he would have an easy time. So we thought. But what transpired in the classroom was very different. Among the newest things at this time was something called “whole language instruction.” When my son was given a simple book to read by the new teacher, he began reading and sounding out the words as he went along, which was what we had taught him to do—to read phonetically. But the new teacher was not impressed. In fact, she was not happy at all. He was not to sound out a word when he came to one he didn’t know. He was to first observe the context of the word, to think of the other words he knew in the surrounding sentence, and think about what the paragraph was about. He was supposed to look at the shape of the word and see if there was anything about it he recognized from other words he knew. There were, in fact, about four steps he was supposed to go through before actually sounding out the word. Spelling instruction in this class was equally exotic. He would come home with papers of things that he had written with comments such as “I love your best guess spelling!” adorning the page on which my son had misspelled several words. What was this new philosophy that encouraged teachers to praise the mistakes children made instead of the things they did correctly? my wife and I learned plenty. We ended M up pulling him out of public school and putting y son learned very little that year, but

him in a local private Christian school that emphasized basic skills and religious instruction. Like our other three children, he experienced a mix of private and homeschool instruction until he reached college. But my own child’s experience piqued my interest. I worked with a conservative public policy

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organization at the time the new reforms began changing our schools. And I began investigating exactly what this “new” education was. In the ensuing several years, other aspects of this “new” form of education became apparent. Teachers were not only no longer allowed to teach formal grammar and spelling, but they were not to correct their students' papers for these things because this would stifle their creativity. Teachers were not to stand up in front of their classrooms and teach, but to play the role of “facilitator” in the education of the children in their classes, because children needed to be “active learners” rather than “passive learners.” And students were supposed to choose what they learned through “learning centers” rather than have the teacher directly tell them what they were supposed to do. The very structure of the classroom was to be changed. No longer would there be rows of desks, a physical arrangement that bespoke order and individuality. Long tables were installed so that children could “collaborate” in “groups.” Individual subjects were out too. Projects and unit studies would replace them. The “rote” memorization and “boring” drill and practice were to be abandoned. These,

What was this new philosophy that encouraged teachers to praise the mistakes children made instead of what they might have done correctly?

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parents were told, were not only not conducive to learning, but were positive impediments to it. And then there was the abandonment of the traditional curriculum: the shift from classic literature to amorphous books by unknown authors and the neglect of the standard history curriculum. In fact, there seemed to be no curriculum at all. Every one of these changes—the back-away from basic skills, classroom methodologies that took the teacher out of the role of directing the classroom, the shift from tried-and-true disciplines toward “hands-on” methods, and the abandonment of traditional methods of

Method," written by William Heard Kilpatrick in 1918 and 1925, respectively. Little has changed except the labels, and even some of these were left as they were, figuring that twenty or twenty-five years was sufficient time for parents to forget how badly they had worked the last time they came around. The pattern of cyclical reform is what I was referring to when I told my wife that “It” was “coming back.” How did I know this? Because here I was, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, hearing the same warmed-over rhetoric I had heard twenty-five years before. Under the guise of what is now being called “Twenty-First Century Learning,” during the reforms of the '90s, the permissivist most of these methods had been around since the 1920s program we had seen in my first child’s and had little record of success in educating children." classroom in the early 1990s—and which had been tried at least knowledge acquisition and a curriculum—all three times before—was being marketed as the of these, parents were told, would help the newest education thinking. acquisition of knowledge. Whenever you see news stories that say All of the “new” practices which were to we need to “deemphasize rote learning” and replace these hoary methods of old were sprayed “emphasize creativity, collaboration, and critical with the thin rhetorical veneer of science. They thinking skills,” you know "It" is coming again. were “research-based,” and if parents only knew The rumbling in the distance constituted by press what the experts in colleges of education knew, reports like this is a sign of the approach of "It." they would be assured that this was the best way to educate children. he first thing to say about these permissivist reforms is that the practices As it turns out, these methods had no the reforms say they want to replace have long compelling research backing. Nor were they new. been banished from the nation’s classrooms. In As I found out during the reforms of the '90s, the opening chapters of Charles Dickens' Hard most of these methods had been around since the Times, Thomas Gradgrind looks out on his class 1920s and had little record of success in educating and proclaims to a colleague: "Now, what I want is, children. Many veteran educators had seen them Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. come through the schools as recently as the late Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, '60s and early '70s with open classrooms and the and root out everything else." Where can we find a New Math. modern Thomas Gradgrind? In fact, almost every one of the supposedly Although this is the image the reformers want “new” methods of education can be traced to create of the classroom out there, it is almost back to three documents, all of them written exclusively a figment of their own imagination. before 1930: "Cardinal Principles of Secondary As E. D. Hirsch points out in his book The Schools Education," written by the Commission on the We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them, reformers Reorganization of Secondary Education in 1918, “continue to assume that teachers are still giving and "The Project Method" and "Foundations of

"As I found out

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lectures to docile classes lined up in rows, are still forcing children to engage in rote learning,” and are still insisting on mere accumulation of facts. In fact, says Hirsch, these practices have been frowned upon in education colleges, professional journals, and in teacher lounges for decades, the victim of the animosity that has characterized the education establishment since the 1920s. “The continued beating of this dead horse," says Hirsch, "illustrates the extreme disconnection between the stated evils that are said to need reforming and the actual practices of American elementary schools.”

he second point is that, far from suffering from an overdose of memorized knowledge— facts being drilled into their tiny little heads—today’s students suffer not from an overabundance of knowledge, but a decided lack of it. National surveys have shown repeatedly that American children don’t know basic facts about history, geography, and literature and don’t do well in mathematics in comparison with many nations which, ironically, stress rote memorization and drill and practice. Our educational establishment—the one that we have charged with transmitting the acquired knowledge and wisdom of the ages—is, it turns out, not very interested in doing this. It is interested instead in “learning styles,” “projects,” and “unit studies,” “child-centered learning,” “learning centers,” and “critical thinking skills”—and in liberating students from, not familiarizing them with, our civilization. The most salient aspect of modern education is its exaltation of process over content. According to Lynne Cheney, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the late 1980s: Long relied upon to transmit knowledge of the past to upcoming generations, our schools today appear to be about a different task. Instead of preserving the past, they more often disregard it, sometimes in the name of “progress”—the idea that today has little to learn from yesterday. But usually the culprit is “process”—the belief that we can teach our children how to think without troubling them to learn anything worth thinking about, the belief that we can teach them how to understand the world in which they live without conveying to them the events and ideas that have brought it into existence.

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pagan classics ? Reason #8: Philosophy by Cheryl Lowe Philosophy is a deep subject that can be quite intimidating. Modern philosophy is so esoteric that few can understand or relate to it, but classical philosophy is different.

s with so many things, if you go back to the beginning and learn first principles, you can develop a deep and satisfying understanding of a subject that is baffling in its modern form. While philosophy may seem abstract and unrelated to the real world, quite the opposite is true. In fact, we are all philosophers; we all have a view of reality, a worldview, as we say today. And our philosophy trickles down and affects everything we believe and do. An example is our view of science and religion. In the beginning, there was no separation between scientists and philosophers because both were asking the same questions: How do we know what we know? Do our five senses give us accurate information about the world, or are our senses unreliable and our knowledge only an illusion? Is anything permanent in this changing world, and if not, why even study it? Are we discreet unrelated beings, or are we all really subsumed in the one? What is more real, the material or immaterial, permanence or change, the senses or the intellect, the one or the many? Are there any principles that underlie the staggering variety of the physical world? The early Greek philosophers asked all of these questions, trying to make sense of their world.

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Physics is the study of the material (physical) world and metaphysics is the study of what is beyond (meta) the material world, the world of the mind. Without a proper metaphysics, science is impossible. Science as we know it today is a gift of the Greeks, for they untangled the immensely difficult first principles of metaphysics that provided the soil for science to ultimately take root and grow. Why did the Greeks insist on these first principles? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the Greeks did: They had the gift of intensely rational minds that looked at everything through reason alone. In the providence of God, they laid the foundation for human wisdom. Classical metaphysics began with Plato and Aristotle, and was expanded and perfected by the Christian philosophers, Augustine and Aquinas. Classical metaphysics, even without the light of divine revelation, supports the existence of God, the supernatural, the immortality of the soul, monotheism, natural law, traditional morality, and ethics. Classical metaphysics, as far as it goes, is consistent with revelation. Reason alone, of course, could not arrive at the doctrine of the Trinity and other supernatural truths of our Christian faith. These can only be known by direct revelation from God.

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Reading Assignment: The Last Days of Socrates by Plato You will get the basic Plato in this very moving collection of dialogues which includes Socrates' Apology and his death.

Classical metaphysics is the foundation of Western civilization. It is rational, systematic, internally consistent, and it can be defended by dialectic. It has never been disproven, just dismissed because it is inconvenient to the modern project of human progress through science alone. Or even worse, classical metaphysics has been distorted and exploited by modern philosophers such as Nietzsche and Ayn Rand. The importance of philosophy is illustrated by the phony war between religion and science, phony because it is really a war between two philosophies, the classical metaphysics of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, and the modern philosophy of materialism and atheism. But we can cut to the heart of this war by using a fundamental principle of classical metaphysics, articulated by Aristotle: The first principles proper to a science cannot be demonstrated within that science. If they could, they would not be genuine first principles. They can, however, be defended by dialectic.

Modern philosophy is based on unexamined assumptions of materialism and atheism, principles which are assumed by modernists as axioms. Materialism says that the material world is all there is, an assumption that is clearly falsified by the existence of the mind. Even though materialism cannot be defended by dialectic, it has become the religion of our time. It provides the framework within which questions can be asked and answered, and thus serves as an orthodoxy as narrow and superstitious as any religion has ever been. We can change that by studying classical metaphysics, which teaches us the first principles of philosophy with which we can expose the prodigious errors of modernism. 1-877-862-1097

Dialectic Dialectic is the search for truth through the resolution of disagreement through rational discussion. It results in probable truth or the most reasonable resolution of opposite opinions. Dialectic is modeled in the Socratic dialogs.

Modern Philosophy Aristotelian metaphysics begins with ontology (being) and moves to epistemology (knowing). Modern philosophy begins with Descartes. who reversed this order by beginning with epistemology ("I think therefore I am") and then moves to ontology. Starting at a different point and asking different questions, modern philosophy is an alternative to classical philosophy. Does modern philosophy have fewer internal contraditions? Is it more consistent with reality? Is it a true development or is it merely a convenient philosophy that supports modern man's project of constructing a world without God?

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Modern educators love to talk about “critical thinking skills,” but not one in a hundred even knows what he means by the term.

very time our country goes through an education reform spasm—which it has undergone about every twenty-five years since the 1920s—the education establishment trots out a set of slogans that always sounds good but doesn’t really mean anything. Even words that were very meaningful in other contexts become mind-numbing under the deadening hand of education reform. The newest victim of this treatment is the term “critical thinking skills.” Undoubtedly at some point in the past, this term meant something, but today it has been hijacked by proponents of what is called “twenty-first century learning,” the most recent incarnation of education reform. When those promoting education reform invoke the term “critical thinking skills,” you can count on one thing: They have no idea what they mean by the words. Last fall, I participated in a televised debate on the new national science standards being implemented in my home state of Kentucky. I 32

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pointed out that the standards did nothing to encourage the acquisition of a knowledge of nature. There is, on the one hand, a pronounced tendency to downplay basic factual knowledge— particularly if such knowledge is gained through that process which is the bane of progressive educators: memorization. You can see this pretty plainly in the rhetoric surrounding the Common Core Initiative. In the science standards, students are never asked to name, identify, classify, or describe any natural object. In fact, the words “mammal,” “fish,” “reptile,” and “amphibian” are never mentioned in the standards—nor are such basic scientific terms as "hormone," "kinesis," "lymphatic," "neuron," "nucleotide," "osmosis," "Celsius," "Fahrenheit," "plasma," "vaccine," "protozoa," or "enzyme." When I pointed this out during the debate, my two opponents, a college biology professor and the chairman of the State House Education Committee, argued that the reason for excluding these things was that they were trying to teach students “critical thinking skills.” I said that I doubted whether they even knew what “critical thinking skills” were. And as it turned out, they couldn’t give a definition. When the moderator of the debate asked me what my definition of critical thinking skills was, I answered: “Logic." It is an interesting fact that the people who say they want to improve our schools spend so much time talking about “critical thinking skills” www.MemoriaPress.com

and so little about logic. One of the reasons is undoubtedly that the word “logic” is much more concrete. It implies a system of rational rules that can be taught—what the ancients called an “art.” Logic has an actual history of having been taught, and taught in a certain way. It is not nearly so amorphous as the term “critical thinking skills.” But for propaganda purposes, it is less useful to use exact words. Vague words with indeterminate meanings are much to be preferred. So bad is this situation that a friend of mine, an emeritus professor of economics, is writing a book in which the thesis is that no one knows what the term means. “Critical thinking skills” is a term used in a number of different disciplines, he points out, but no one has a clue as to what it means. But it sounds good, which is why education reformers use it. To say you are in favor of critical thinking skills is the education equivalent of saying, “Have a nice day.” The next time you hear someone from the educational establishment start talking about thinking skills, ask him or her to define it for you. You will be met with blank stares. And if you ask them to give you an example of a thinking skills program they would recommend, they will change the subject. When the television moderator asked me the question about what thinking skills were, instead of merely mentioning logic, I could just as easily have said the liberal arts (of which logic is a part). The two parts of the liberal arts—the trivium and the quadrivium—are the two kinds of thinking skills: the qualitative and linguistic on the one hand, and the quantitative and mathematical on the other. Ask yourself this question: If my students are versed in formal grammar—say, they have spent their grammar school years studying the inflected Latin grammar—and they are at grade level in mathematics, what thinking skills are they missing? In other words, there is a seven-word answer to the question “How do you define critical thinking skills?”—grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. And as David Mulroy, the author of The War Against Grammar, points out, if it makes you feel better, you can simply replace astronomy and music with algebra and calculus. 1-877-862-1097

If you are a classical educator, the answer to the question “How do you teach thinking skills?” is as easy as saying, “Latin and math.” If you want to, you can add “music.” Or you simply say, “The liberal arts,” because that’s what they teach. Classical educators are the only ones who have a critical thinking skills program. They are the only ones who have it, but most of them don’t know they have it—at least they don’t know to call it that. We can’t teach children thinking skills if we don’t know what they are—and we can’t teach them how to think if they don’t have anything to think about.

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The principles of material logic, an important part of trivium language study, are now almost completely forgotten—a casualty of the almost exclusive modern secular emphasis on the quantitative sciences. This has resulted in the rise of systems of modern logic that are more math than logic. Formal logic was once termed minor (or lesser) logic, while material logic usually went by the name of major (or greater) logic—possibly a measure of how important classical thinkers considered it.

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There is a huge gap between formal logic courses and so-called “thinking skills” courses. Formal logic focuses exclusively on the systematic study of the structure of reasoning. “Thinking skills” courses, on the other hand, tend to suffer from a highly nonsystematic, topic-hopping approach, where the student is unable to see how one principle connects with another. Whether you want a follow-on course to Memoria Press’ popular Traditional Logic program, or simply an introduction to logic for high school students at a little more advanced level, this program is a valuable tool in teaching your student how to think.

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Handbook of Christian Apologetics:

Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft & Ronald Tacelli

$22.00 *Optional Logic supplement This book is the perfect supplement for Traditional Logic. Modern skeptical arguments are here in abundance—all logically answered. Students love to see something they have learned incorporated into real books. This book will help your students see how important and useful traditional logic is, and at the same time fortify them in their faith.

Classical Rhetoric $140.00 complete set

(basic set + How to Read a Book & Figures of Speech)

$94.95 basic set

(student, key, DVDs, Aristotle's Rhetoric)

Classical Rhetoric by Martin Cothran Grades 9+

Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle’s Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle’s great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing. This is more than just a course in English or public speaking. It involves a study of the fundamental principles of political philosophy, ethics, and traditional psychology. A student learns not only the elements of a political speech, but also the elements of good character; not only how to give a legal speech, but also the seven reasons people act; not only how to give a ceremonial speech, but what elicits specific emotions under particular circumstances and why. • Sample weekly plan • Clear explanation of lesson components • Easy-to-read layout • Reading questions • Figures of speech • Evaluative & analysis questions • How to Read a Book questions • Case studies from Homer, Plato, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Marc Antony, and much more!

"Our study of logic led us to use Martin Cothran’s book on rhetoric ... Our oldest finished it last month and ate it up; he wants to study constitutional law and we are very happy with the foundation he has received because of Cothran’s materials." - Kendra F.

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Socrates Meets Jesus: History’s Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft

$16.00 *Optional Logic supplement In this clever book, Socrates makes mincemeat of the arguments of skeptics who want to abandon reason when it comes to Christianity. Because of the copious use of logical syllogisms, this book makes a great supplement to Traditional Logic.

Aristotle's Rhetoric edited by Edward Corbett

$3.50 *REQUIRED for Classical Rhetoric This book contains the same Rhys Roberts translation used in Classical Rhetoric. Selected because of its clarity and simplicity, its carefully chosen terminology distinguishes this translation from all others currently available.

How to Read A Book:

A Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren

$16.99

*Strongly Recommended Rhetoric supplement How to Read a Book contains clear and useful instructions on how to determine what kind of book you are reading, the four levels of reading, and how to read different kinds of books. The principles in this book are applied directly to Aristotle's Rhetoric in Memoria Press' Classical Rhetoric.

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur Quinn

$31.95

*Strongly Recommended Rhetoric supplement This book presents 60 of the most common classical figures of speech and gives examples from classic literature of each. Memoria's Classical Rhetoric contains Figures of Speech exercises at the beginning of each chapter.

Logic

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ount St. Michael Catholic School is in its 28th year of working with families to form their children in courageous virtue grounded in the truth of Christ. The school began in 1978 as a preschool Montessori program, but quickly grew to also serve grades 1-8 with what moderns would call a "traditional" curriculum and program. In the year 2000, a Mount St. Michael teacher of fourteen years, Mrs. Gretchen Montgomery, became principal of the school, and joined with a group of parents, teachers, and the school advisory council to move the school into a classical curriculum and methodology. She had been exposed to the classical approach at homeschool book fairs and saw a powerful opportunity to provide instruction according to the God-given natural development of the child, as well as to naturally integrate Church history, the lives of the saints, and virtue formation. Today, students from forty-two different zip codes attend Mount St. Michael. There are three primary attractions to the school that are unique among the Catholic schools in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area: the daily celebration of the Mass incorporated into the school day to further the overall spiritual life, a preschool Montessori school, and a 1st-8th grade classical school. Many homeschool families are thrilled to find the same books on the principal's shelf as they have at home. Some have described the school as "the next best thing to homeschooling," only with a larger "kitchen table." Enrollment grew from 118 to 189 over the course of six years. Memoria Press plays an important role in the development of the classical school. Mount St. Michael incorporates their Latin materials for all students, from three-year-olds through fourteen-

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year-olds. Mrs. Carol Weberg, a Latin educator by degree, developed Montessori materials specifically for the PK3-PK5's and teaches Latin to every student in the school. Memoria Press Logic especially provides a solid foundation for seventh and eighth grade students as they develop the ability to discern the truth before graduating to attend a variety of high schools. Throughout the school, teachers have enthusiastically enjoyed using the MP Literature Guides to lead students into a deeper appreciation and understanding of literature's vocabulary and content. One of the highlights of the school year is the recitation of "Horatius at the Bridge" by the sixth grade class after studying the ballad using the Memoria Press study guide. While the entire class is required to memorize only twenty-four stanzas, they are challenged to memorize and recite all seventy. Those students successfully reciting all seventy are honored with the Winston Churchill Award and have their names added to the plaque displayed for all to see. This year they will each receive the award's medal, made available through Memoria Press. In addition, the professional development provided through the Memoria Press magazine, The Classical Teacher, and their conferences influence and guide the paradigms from which teachers instruct their students. Mount St. Michael continues to explore and discover other "gems" provided by Memoria Press and others to further develop as a classical school and develop its students, as St. Ireneus put it, for "The glory of God is man fully alive."

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Book of Trees NEW

Book of Astronomy

Grades 6+

Grades 3+

Student $14.95 | Teacher $16.95 This astronomy program covers stars, constellations, and the motion of the earth, as well as the sky as seen throughout all the seasons, including the “Summer Triangle” and seasonal zodiacs. This program was developed with third graders in mind, but it is also great for older students!

Book of Insects Grades 4+

$48.00 set

(reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide)

Student $14.95 | Teacher $16.95 | Reader $14.95 | eBook $12.00 Peterson Guide $6.95 This set includes a classic reader that takes a narrative approach to the life of insects and a workbook that takes your student through the different kinds of insects.

$59.00 set

(reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide, Tree Book for Kids & Their Grown-Ups)

Student $14.95 | Teacher $16.95 | Peterson Guide $6.95 | Reader $14.95 | Tree Book for Kids and Their Grown-ups $15.95 Does your student know that the very gift of breath is the result of the oxygen that trees and plants put into the air? Or that trees and plants provide the means of sustenance for all life on earth? Our new Trees Reader, along with a student workbook and teacher key, will teach your student both plant morphology and taxonomy (the different parts and different kinds of plants), as well as photosynthesis and respiration. Other chapters cover flowers and fruits. As much of modern science instruction becomes increasingly dominated by a focus on technology and scientific abstractions, teachers, parents, and students will appreciate programs like this one that return to the traditional focus on the wonders of nature. Complete with Memoria Press Quizzes, Reviews, & Tests

What’s That Bird? Grades 5+

$48.00 set

(reader, student, teacher, Peterson Guide, coloring book)

Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 | Reader $14.95 | Peterson Guide $6.95 | Coloring Book $8.95 What’s That Bird? teaches students about birds, their anatomy, and how they live. The workbook includes facts to know, comprehension questions, and characteristics of individual birds. Students will learn about 30 common birds, as well as several incredible birds! Turn this Birds Unit Study into a full-year science course with the addition of J. H. Tiner’s Exploring the History of Medicine. The World of Animals $24.99

(K-2nd grade)

This book investigates and describes the anatomy, behavior, and habitats of over 1,000 animals. It makes a great additional science resource for use with our Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade Classical Core Curriculum packages (pp. 6-7).

J. H. Tiner Series Choose from: Exploring the History of Medicine Exploring Planet Earth Exploring the World of Mathematics Exploring the World of Chemistry Exploring the World of Physics Exploring the World of Biology

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We love John H. Tiner's science books for middle school students. He writes from a biblical perspective and has won numerous awards for his books on science and medicine for young people. They are excellent introductions to the people and places central to the planet earth, the history of medicine, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. These illustrated books have review questions and activities after every chapter, and Memoria Press has added additional supplemental review questions to each chapter, unit reviews, unit tests, and a final exam for each book in the series.

The Well-Trained Mind:

The Well-Educated Mind:

$27.95

$25.00

A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 3rd Edition by Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise

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Text $13.99 ea. Quizzes, Reviews, & Tests $8.00 ea.

A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer

Science

Alphabet Books

Recommended for Ages 4-5

$30.00 (2-book set) Learning the alphabet is the critical first step in learning how to read. The Alphabet Book teaches letter recognition, letter formation, and pencil grip through repetition and tracing. Activities, created with the younger student in mind, make learning each letter simple and fun. This book also introduces initial and ending sounds, providing a gentle introduction to phonics. The Alphabet Book acts as a great supplement to any primary program or full-year preschool/kindergarten program.

Coloring Books

Alphabet & Numbers Recommended for Ages 4-5

$6.00 ea. Have you been searching high and low for junior kindergarten activities that are fun and instructional? Look no further! These coloring books have simple line drawings on uncluttered pages! The Alphabet Coloring Book has a 2-page spread for each letter, and the Numbers Coloring Book has two sets of 2-page spreads for numbers 0-12. These books are the perfect supplement to any junior kindergarten program.

The Book of Crafts

for Junior Kindergarten Classical Core Curriculum Supplement by Tara Luse

$16.95 The creative arts are an essential part of the primary school education. By using the activities in this book, you can reinforce number and letter recognition, strengthen fine motor skills, and foster creativity and confidence. This book is for the youngest crafters and is intended to be a supplement to our Junior Kindergarten curriculum. For easy reference, the crafts are separated into three categories: Literature Crafts, Letter Crafts, and Review Day Crafts. While the crafts in this book have been carefully chosen to promote skill growth and coordination, the most important component is fun. Enjoy each of your creations and the time spent together making them!

Alphabet Flashcards $10.00 (4¼'' x 5½") These flashcards are modeled after our manuscript Alphabet Wall Charts. Each letter is on one side of the card, and the image beginning with that letter is on the flip side. These are perfect for reinforcing your child's letter recognition and beginning sounds.

Primary

First Start Reading:

Phonics, Reading, and Printing by Cheryl Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

$42.95 set (Books A, B, C, & D + Teacher Guide) Your children can begin reading instantly as they progress through 4 simple student books and 34 phonetic stories. The Teacher Guide includes helpful assessments, tips, and more! • consonants • short & long vowels • 57 common words • manuscript printing • artist-drawn coloring pictures • drawing pages for every letter FSR is a balanced, age-appropriate approach to phonics and reading, with a serious focus on correct pencil grip and letter formation. Also, while many phonics programs today use the ladder approach (consonant-vowel blending), we prefer the more traditional (vowel-consonant) approach combined with word families. Mastery of short vowels is the sine qua non of phonics programs, but few programs provide adequate practice. *Note: Printing, an important pathway of the learning process, is an integral part of FSR. Some children, however, are reading-ready before their motor skills are developed enough for printing. If this is the case with your child, you may use FSR without the printing component.

Classical Phonics

A Child's Guide to Word Mastery Grades K-2

$14.95 Classical Phonics consists of phonetically-arranged word lists for students to practice their growing word recognition skills. In a word list there are no context clues, so the learner must rely on his mastery of letter sounds. For instance, if your child can pronounce each word in this list correctly – pot, pat, pit, put, pet – he knows his short vowel sounds, and you can move on to long vowels! If not, he needs more practice, and Classical Phonics is the most effective tool we know of to address the repetition that young ones need when learning to read. It can be used as a supplement to any phonics program and covers nearly all English phonograms and sounds taught through second grade. Classical Phonics is your go-to resource for phonics practice and for building confident readers. Classical Phonics is a teacher and student guide all in one. It provides thorough, concise phonics explanations at the bottom of most pages, giving you the background you need to teach phonics even if you never learned it yourself.

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Numbers Books

Memoria Press Copybook Series

by Leigh Lowe Recommended for Kindergarten

by Cheryl & Leigh Lowe Grades K-2

$30.00 (2-book set) Written by Leigh Lowe (author of Prima Latina), the Numbers Book is the perfect introduction to numbers, counting, and patterns. Lots of tracing practice also makes this book ideal for the slightly older student who has already mastered counting, but still needs extra practice writing numbers. The activities (mazes, coloring, pattern recognition, connect the dots, and more!) are so much fun that your student won't be able to wait for the next lesson!

Enrichment Guides

(Kindergarten or First Grade)

$19.95 These supplemental guides are organized by week, matching our Classical Core Kindergarten and First Grade programs. Each guide includes an overview of each read-aloud book, author and illustrator biographies, oral reading questions, and a simple language lesson. These activities will help bring each read-aloud book alive for your student. Also included are resources for the history, culture, and science lessons, biographies of the artists and composers, and poetry lessons.

Alphabet Wall Charts (11'' x 17'') Manuscript Charts $14.95 Cursive Charts $14.95 (New American Cursive font) Visual aids reinforce each letter of the alphabet while young students learn to read and write or practice their cursive penmanship. With beautiful letters, colors, and hand-drawn illustrations, they also make great educational posters for your home and/or classroom!

Alphabet Wall Poster $7.00 (22'' x 34'') We created this chart upon the request of our homeschool customers. This poster-sized chart has the alphabet listed in manuscript and cursive. If you don't have the wall space for our Alphabet Wall Charts, this poster is the perfect resource for your students!

Art Cards

(5½" x 8½")

Kindergarten $9.95 1st Grade $9.95 2nd Grade $9.95

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$39.95 set (Copybooks I-III) Copybook I $14.95 | Copybook II $14.95 | Copybook III $14.95 These three-in-one wonders include memory passages, copybook exercises, and drawing pages. We have selected Scripture from the King James Bible and classic children’s poems, such as those by Robert Louis Stevenson, which describe the world in charming detail. Our copybooks introduce basic strokes and margin/spacing guidelines, along with alphabet practice pages with traceable characters and instructions for difficult letters.

Copybook Cursive:

Scripture & Poems (New American Cursive)

$14.95 Now get our original Copybook III in cursive! Filled with the same Scripture and poetry in our original Copybook III, but formatted in the New American Cursive font, our second graders complete this copybook alongside New American Cursive 2. Also a good choice for older students who need cursive practice.

Composition & Sketchbook $7.95 ea.

Choose from: I, II, or III Our Composition & Sketchbook allows each student to write and illustrate compositions. This book is a great resource for all subjects and becomes a journal of your child's work for each year. And now we have expanded our line of Composition & Sketchbooks to include two new titles:

Composition & Sketchbook I: NEW 5/8" Ruled for Younger Students

This font is ruled with a middle dashed line, and each page is divided in half so that students draw on the top half of the page and write on the bottom half. So, 4-5 year old students aren't overwhelmed by a 2-page spread.

Composition & Sketchbook III: NEW College-Ruled for Older Students

This book is laid out in a 2-page spread with an entire page for a picture on the left-hand side and a page of college-ruled lines on the right-hand side. Grammar school students will be very comfortable with this more mature format.

Primary

NEW

Teach Yourself Cursive: Create a Cursive That Fits You Penmanship program for older students

$22.95 “Iris Hatﬁeld has done it again! Teach Yourself Cursive makes practice easy and interesting, with plenty of guides and incentives to keep us improving in handwriting that is consistent, legible, and, yes, faster than printing. Above all, New American Cursive is proven to be based on positive psychological principles." – Willa W. Smith, Ed. D.

Teach Yourself Cursive features:

✓ For older students and adults ✓ Easy methods to make learning cursive a pleasure ✓ Step-by-step lesson plan ✓ Practice just 15 minutes a day to get remarkable results ✓ 14 tips for left-handers ✓ Helps develop your individual style ✓ Handwriting improvement techniques for everyone

Why Learn Cursive? • Improves fine motor skills and neural connections in the brain • Gives ability to read cursive • Increases writing speed, selfdiscipline, and eye-hand coordination • Improves reading and spelling abilities • Increases attractiveness, legibility, and fluidity of one’s signature • Increases self-confidence, continuity, and fluidity when communicating with the written word

New American Cursive 1

New American Cursive 2

by Iris Hatﬁeld Grades 1-4

Grades 2-4

$22.95 Some people think computers have made cursive writing skills obsolete, but good handwriting and computers are not mutually exclusive. Should we stop teaching language arts because a child can now text message?

$22.95 ea.

Before the early 1920s, virtually all children were taught cursive in the ﬁrst grade. Research shows that when third graders begin writing cursive, they return to a ﬁrst grade speed level. By learning cursive earlier, students can focus more on other subjects once they reach the upper grades.

Students continue working on cursive ﬂuency and legibility with the 130 lessons in NAC 2. As students gain conﬁdence in their cursive, exercises in creative writing are added.

Simple, clear, & eﬀective! ✓ Focus on accuracy and legibility ✓ Simplified classic letter forms ✓ 125 Instruction and exercise lessons ✓ 8-page teaching guide ✓ Multi-sensory teaching methods ✓ Takes only 15 min./day! ✓ Bound at the top ✓ Natural right slant (easier for beginners & lefties) ✓ Illustrations/Exercises for letter connections for right or left-handers

Startwrite CD

$29.95

(New American Cursive supplement)

This New American Cursive supplemental software is available for easy, customizable worksheets to integrate handwriting practice with any subject. (Windows only)

New American Cursive

Available in two versions: Scripture passages or quotes from great Americans

New American Cursive 3

Scripture & Lessons on Manners Grades 3-4

$22.95 New American Cursive 3 is designed to enhance the student’s development of cursive writing skills while teaching good manners and correspondence protocol. It combines proven teaching methods with the needs of the contemporary student for a fast, legible script.

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Introduction to Classical Studies Grades 3-8

$79.95

set (student & teacher guides, Famous Men of Rome, D'Aulaires' Greek Myths, Golden Children's Bible) Student $12.95 | Teacher $14.95

Timeline Set for the Grammar Stage NEW!

Events from Ancient to Modern Times Grades 3-6

$39.95 set

Newly reformatted, this guide now includes a student workbook for easier use. Designed for use with D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, Famous Men of Rome, and The Golden Children's Bible, this guide will show you how to teach, learn, and master the stories fundamental to a classical education. The guide contains a three-year reading plan and is a great way for older students to catch up if starting their classical studies late.

(Composition & Sketchbook, Handbook, Wall Cards, Flashcards)

We haven't been so excited about a new product in a long time! Our new Timeline program will enable students to master a total of 60 events over the course of four years (3rd6th grades). History is a very unsystematic subject, and time is very abstract. Students need a timeline that they memorize, build on, and recite every yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Memoria Press is bringing it to you! Timeline Composition & Sketchbook $9.95 These books will be completed over the four-year period in which this timeline is completed. Each event has a 2-page spread with a picture frame for illustrating the event on one side and a page of blank lines for writing a summary of the event. Timeline Handbook $9.95 The Timeline Handbook includes teaching guidelines, charts of the dates studied by grade and by time period, and summaries of each event to help students complete their Composition & Sketchbook. Student Flashcards $12.95 Each student should have his/her own set of flashcards for drill and practice. One side has the date and the reverse side has the event. These cards are color-coded identically to the Timeline Wall Cards.

Ancient Civilization Wall Maps For All Ages!

Large (24'' x 33'') $35.00 Small (11'' x 17'') $19.95 Make the ancient civilization stories come alive on your classroom walls. These color wall maps are perfect for any classical education classroom. Each set includes individual maps of Greece, Italy, the City of Rome, and the Roman Empire. These maps contain all the hot spots in the classical world, including the famous cities, countries, rivers, lakes, mountains, and oceans.

Horatius at the Bridge Grades 6+

$19.95 set (book, medal, pin) Book $14.95 This guide contains the complete text of Thomas Babington Macaulay's 70 stanza ballad and a comprehensive study guide, including vocabulary, maps, character and plot synopses, meter, comprehension questions, teaching guidelines, and a test. Medal $5.00 | Lapel Pin $2.00 Students at Highlands Latin School memorize and recite this entire poem and receive the Winston Churchill Award certificate, medal, and lapel pin. We are now offering the same opportunity to all students. You can purchase the medal and pin in a set with the book or individually. Send us a recording of your students reciting the poem, and we'll send them a Winston Churchill Award certificate to present with the medal.

Timeline Wall Cards $12.95 (shown right) Cards for the wall timeline have the date and event on the same side. Cards are added throughout the year as students study history in Classical/Christian Studies and American Studies. The wall timeline should be in a prominent place in the classroom throughout the year, beginning in grade 3. Timeline Wall Cards shown right. View more samples online at www.MemoriaPress.com.

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Classical Studies

One of the most noticeable tendencies in modern education is an aversion to the word "knowledge."

hy is this? Why is the one word you would expect to be at the center of the education enterprise the one word that so many modern educators find distasteful? Anyone who has taken the time to read the documents that guide our nation’s educational policy finds this tendency hard to miss. In my own state of Kentucky, several years ago policy makers decided they were going to reform the state’s school system. In looking for something new, they reached for all the trendy educational fads that happened to be making the rounds at that particular time (the early 1990s). And in trying to find the newest and most cutting-edge educational practices, they did what education reformers in this country always do: They implemented the same shopworn "progressive" ideas that have repeatedly failed to educate children. No one ever mistook Kentucky for a leader in education innovation. In fact, it has consistently competed with a few other states for last place in most measures of educational achievement. Kentucky's reforms of the 1990s, it turns out, didn’t help its reputation. Despite the largest tax increase in the state’s history and a reform law that turned the state’s schools upside down, Kentucky’s public education still languishes near the bottom on many state-by-state comparisons. When the program was implemented, it didn’t take long to figure out what was happening: vague, meaningless education standards; permissive approaches to classroom management; an underlying philosophy that rejected common-sense notions about 42

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truth and human nature; and a redirection of attention away from academic concerns toward broader social concerns that had nothing to do with education. But the first thing I noticed about these supposedly progressive reforms was the lengths to which education reformers were willing to go to avoid having to say that word "knowledge." The word was almost completely absent from the documents that were guiding educators. I once sat on a committee that was responsible for offering recommendations on school family life education, and, after months of reviewing materials designed to teach students how to make decisions about sexual activity, drugs, etc., I remarked to the committee that it was significant that the word "conscience" was so studiously avoided in all of the materials. This became especially obvious after some newer materials began to tell the students to consult their "inner guides." The word "conscience" connotes the idea of a real right and wrong outside of the person, regardless of what his "inner guide" may tell him. Both conscience and knowledge convey the idea of objective truth that exists outside the human mind, which is the true end of education. Modern education philosophy no longer accepts the reality of objective knowledge, which is precisely why the modern educator can no longer educate. Western civilization was built upon the Christian and Aristotelian concept of knowledge as real and objective, and the classical model of education which predominated in American schools until the early twentieth century was based on it. When modern

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philosophers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries began to reject the existence of God, they were forced to search for a modern basis for knowledge. But the skepticism about the existence of God quickly led to a similar skepticism about the reality of knowledge itself. The only true knowledge, it was decided, is math and "scientific facts." Everything else is mere opinion and not worthy of the designation knowledge or truth. The eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume stated this view in its purest form: If we take in hand any volume of divinity or metaphysics, for instance, let us ask: Does it contain any reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

This is why children are now asked to "construct meaning" rather than simply "read and comprehend." Diane Ravitch writes of how this approach to the curriculum became evident in American education as early as 1910, when figures such as John Dewey openly questioned the old classical model and began promoting a new progressive philosophy in colleges and schools. College schools of education, which to this day are the origin of much educational mischief, began sending experts out to schools, preaching the new doctrines and undermining the classical curricula. This was called "the curriculum revision movement," says Ravitch, and the impression that emerges, she says, is a pronounced shift in the stated goals of schooling, away from a concern with intellectual development and mastery of subject matter to concern for social and emotional development and the adoption of "functional" objectives related to areas such as vocation, health, and family life. Generally, the revised curriculum was ... a conscious attempt to denigrate the traditional notion of "knowledge for its own sake" as useless and possibly worthless.

Ironically, the book in which he said this, The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, was itself neither a mathematical nor a scientific book, but a book of philosophy and, therefore, by Hume's own criterion, should have been "committed to the flames." Immanuel Kant later set about to rescue knowledge It is ironic that when man began the modern from this reductionist view, but he ended up completely adventure of constructing a world without God, he destroying it. He eliminated Hume’s distinction between thought he could know everything. He has ended up true knowledge (science) and everything else, but it was deciding he can know nothing. As G. K. Chesterton a Phyrric victory because he essentially said that not put in his book Orthodoxy: even math and science are ultimately knowable. Kant said that man can only understand reality through the And in the act of destroying the idea of Divine authority innate structure of his own mind; man is trapped in his we have largely destroyed the idea of that human authority own mind, incapable of really knowing truth. by which we do a long-division sum. With a long and This is the source of the modern educator’s sustained tug we have attempted to pull the mitre off problem with the word "knowledge": The only thing pontifical man; and his head has come off with it. man can really know is his own mind; therefore the only thing our students can really know is themselves. According to Kant, all knowledge is subjective, "This is why the modern educator not just values and morals. Each can no longer educate." individual has his own unique experiences, constructs his own meaning, lives in his own world. This is the reason As Diane Ravitch has pointed out so eloquently that it is the process of learning that is important, in her book The Troubled Crusade: American Education, not the content, which is why educators emphasize 1945-1980, the reform efforts based on the modern learning by experience. In their book, Education and the Nature of Man, view of knowledge have produced nothing but a litany Earl Kelley and Marie Rasey express the modern of failure. If the education establishment attempted view succinctly: to return to earlier assumptions about truth and the classical model of education that was based on it, they Knowledge, then, is what we know ... It is subjective would be accused of "turning back the clock." The real in nature and unique to the learner. It does not exist truth is that they would be coming home—to common before learning begins, or if it does, that fact does not sense and sanity. really matter. It is the result of process and is subject to continuous modification.

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D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Grades 3-8

$45.95 set (text, student, teacher)

Text $19.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95

This is an ideal beginning book for your child’s classical education journey, regardless of age! Superbly written and illustrated, this classic introduces timeless tales that have enchanted people for thousands of years. Because they are everywhere in Western art and literature, Greek myths are the essential background for a classical education. You can hardly read Shakespeare without them! Each of the 30 lessons in the Student Guide presents important facts to know, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a picture review and activities section. It also points out the many references to Greek mythology in the modern world.

Famous Men of Rome

Famous Men of Greece

$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

Grades 4-8

Grades 5-8

Text $16.95 | eBook $14.00 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95

Famous Men of Rome is ideal for beginners of all ages who are fascinated by the action and drama of Rome. Inside are 30 stories, covering all of ancient Rome’s history, from its founding to its demise. Witness the rise and fall of a great civilization through the lives of larger-than-life figures.

If the Romans were history’s great men of action, the Greeks were history’s great men of thought. Dive into the lives and minds of thirty-two famous Greeks through stories detailing the rise, Golden Age, and fall of Greece. Learning about the triumphs of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Ulysses, Pericles, Alexander the Great, and many others will enable your students to understand why the scope of Greek accomplishment is still known today as “The Greek Miracle.”

Famous Men of the Middle Ages Grades 5-8

$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

Text $16.95 | eBook $14.00 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 | Flashcards $12.95

The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc, among others. This course guides students through the turbulent “dark age” of history and illustrates the transition from the end of ancient times to the birth of the modern era. This book is a perfect precursor to Famous Men of Modern Times.

Famous Men of Modern Times Grades 6-8

$39.95 set (text, student, teacher)

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Modern history—history, that is, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453—can sometimes seem like a confusing jumble of unrelated events. As a result, many curricula needlessly avoid this exciting period of history. Famous Men of Modern Times will bring the events of the last 500 years to life. These stories provide great insight into the foundations of the modern world.

Dorothy Mills Histories

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 Dorothy Mills takes the student on an adventure, exploring the geography, culture, architecture, and most prominent people of Egypt, Persia, the Hittites, Israel, and more. Not only does she teach the valuable history and lessons of the ancient peoples, but she gives the students an understanding of the people and neighbors out of which Christianity sprung.

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 The journey continues, starting in Crete and ending in the Hellenistic Age ushered in by Alexander the Great. Students learn about the development of democracy, the primordial defense of democracy in the Persian wars, the heyday of Athens (also known as the Golden Age), and that sad self-destruction known as the Peloponnesian Wars. But it is not history alone—culture, values, and life lessons are taught.

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The Trojan War

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Western civilization begins with the Iliad and Odyssey. This is a perfect place to start your study of the Great Books. Our study guides will help bring Homerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great works alive for your student. Our Teacher Guide has inset student pages with answers, teacher notes for each lesson, quizzes, and tests, giving the teacher all the background information needed to teach these books.

The Aeneid

David West translation Grades 8+

Novel $13.00 | Student $16.95 | Teacher $16.95 After you have completed your study of Homer, the Aeneid is your next logical Great Book to study. Virgil's epic story of the founding of Rome will come alive when read with the help of our study guide as you continue your quest to master the classics. After reading Homer and Virgil, your students will have completed their first big step on the road to being classically educated! This is a great preparation for Latin AP Virgil also.

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 After the Greeks, all roads lead to Rome. And like any good Roman course, this one begins with the she-wolf and the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The rise and fall of a monarchy, the embrace of a republic with the simultaneous dislike for kings, and finally the ironic rise of the Roman Empire teach unforgettable principles about human nature and society.

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Novel $6.95 | Student $11.95 | Teacher $12.95 This retelling of the Trojan War is the best preparation for reading Homer. Each lesson in the study guide has reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and an enrichment section that includes extra discussion topics, writing projects, art, and map work. After studying The Trojan War with our guide, your student will know Homer's main characters, the gods and goddesses, and the main storyline of the Iliad and Odyssey.

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$9.95 Alfred Church's retelling of Virgil's Aeneid is a great introduction to Aeneas, who escaped from the burning city of Troy and founded Rome. After reading this novel, students will have a good grasp on the characters and story of the Aeneid and be ready to tackle the more difficult prose in Virgil.

The Book of the Middle Ages $39.95 (novel, student, teacher)

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Novel $16.95 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $17.95 See how Christianity spread out, building a new civilization on the remnants of the Roman Empire. From the foundation of monasteries to the bell towers of universities, from the crowning of Charlemagne to the execution of Joan of Arc, the travel through Christendom unfolds beautifully.

Classical Studies

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Divine Comedy

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by Cicero

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The Divine Comedy is one of the crown jewels of both Western and Christian literature. This epic, allegorical poem illustrates Dante’s spiritual journey of redemption that takes him through the pit of Hell (the Inferno) to the Beatific Vision of God (the Paradiso). The Student Guide contains helpful study questions, and reading notes for difficult lines.

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The Republic & the Laws NEW! by Cicero

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"There will not be left a stone upon a stone." We teach our children Christ's prophecy, but do they ever learn about the fulfillment of it? Josephus, a Jew turned Roman citizen from the first century A.D., is regarded as the most trustworthy source for the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. This short course is the follow-up to a study of Scripture as well as the best introduction to the history of Christianity.

City of God

Vernon J. Bourke edition Grades 10-12

Classical Studies Suggested Timeline If you don't begin your classical education until middle or high school, it is never too late! We would suggest that you start with Year 5 of our Classical Studies Map and move forward from there. Before beginning your study of the classics, it is always helpful if your student has a basic knowledge of Greek mythology (D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths [p. 44]) and has read a retelling of the Trojan War (Olivia Coolidge's The Trojan War [p. 45]). Year

Program

D'Aulaires' Greek Myths (p. 44)

Famous Men of Rome (p. 44)

Novel $14.00 | Student $17.95 | Teacher $20.95 | Quizzes/Tests $5.00 The City of God, arguably Augustine's greatest book, influenced Western society more powerfully than perhaps any other book except the Bible. To study the City of God is to study the source of some of Western society’s greatest and most cherished beliefs. The book serves as the cultural fountainhead of all that followed, and it is unlikely that it will ever be equaled. The study guide aids students in comprehending Augustine's masterpiece. The teacher guide contains helpful chapter summarizations as well as a thorough introduction to teaching this course effectively. Don't let your students miss the study of this influential book that helped to shape some of the most important intellectual, theological, and political issues of theWestern world that are just as relevant today as 1,500 years ago. COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. In Chapter 1, Augustine is criticizing the enemies of the City of God. What is the criticism he is leveling against them?

Augustine is criticizing these individuals because they sought safety from the invaders in the __________________________________________________________________________________ sanctuaries of Christian churches, and now they are attacking Christianity itself. They did not hesitate __________________________________________________________________________________ to claim they were Christian in order to be saved, but once they were saved from the attackers, they __________________________________________________________________________________

Famous Men of the Middle Ages (p. 44)

failed to show gratitude for their safety. __________________________________________________________________________________

2. Summarize Augustine’s point about suffering in Chapter 8.

Suffering has a twofold purpose: __________________________________________________________________________________ 1. It serves as a punishment for the unrighteous. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. It teaches the good to be patient. __________________________________________________________________________________ The difference, Augustine says, is “not in what people suffer but in the way they suffer.” __________________________________________________________________________________

3. In Chapter 9, Augustine criticizes Christians for not reproving the wicked. Why, in Augustine’s opinion, have Christians failed to do this?

Because of the effort required to do so, because of the fear of antagonizing them, waiting for a more __________________________________________________________________________________ opportune moment, or for fear that a rebuke may actually make them worse. __________________________________________________________________________________

Famous Men of Greece, The Trojan War, and Horatius at the Bridge (pp. 41, 44, 45)

4. In Chapter 19, Augustine presents the case of Lucretia, who committed suicide. What reason does Augustine give for her suicide?

She was unable to bear the burden of shame. The shame comes from a fear that people would think she __________________________________________________________________________________ was a willing participant, and the only way she could prove her innocence was to take her own life. __________________________________________________________________________________ 5. According to Chapter 21, does Augustine ever see a justiﬁable reason for killing another human being. If so, what is the reason or reasons?

Yes. When God authorizes killing by a general law, when He gives an explicit commission to an __________________________________________________________________________________ individual for a limited time, or when the State punishes criminals. __________________________________________________________________________________

6. In Chapter 27, Augustine says there may be only one justiﬁable reason for suicide. What is that reason, and does he ultimately agree with it?

To keep one’s self from falling into sin. Augustine does not agree with this reason. __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________

7. In Chapter 33, Augustine gives a strongly worded reason for why Rome suffered the humiliation of

Iliad and Odyssey (Homer) and The Book of the Ancient Greeks (pp. 44-45)

The Aeneid (Virgil) and The Book of the Ancient Romans (p. 45)

Greek Plays (Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus)

The Divine Comedy (Dante) (p. 46)

Classical Studies

defeat. Describe what Augustine has to say.

He says it is because Rome was already declining from within. He cites the examples of spiritual __________________________________________________________________________________ disease, degeneration, and a decline into immorality and indecency. He asks the opponents of the City __________________________________________________________________________________ of God why they take no responsibility for the tragic situation. Instead of learning from their adversity, __________________________________________________________________________________ they remain in sin. __________________________________________________________________________________

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All Major Bible Stories up to the Entry into Canaan Grades 3-6

The Rise and Fall of Israel, the Period of the Prophets Grades 4-6

All Major New Testament Stories Grades 5-6

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Christian Studies IV takes students back through the highlights of the Bible, reviewing drill questions, Scripture memory passages, and more! This study guide can serve as a review course for Christian Studies I-III or stand alone as a survey study of the Bible. We give you the Scripture passages where the answers to the drill questions can be found so that you can read through the Bible by touching on the major stories and characters. This course is a great preparation for studying early church history in the upper school years.

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Christian Studies Suggested Timeline Grade 3+

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The Book of the Ancient World (Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Hebrews)

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Early Christian history taught through primary sources (Luke, Ignatius, Clement, Eusebius, and more)

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City of God (Augustine)

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Christian Apologetics (Lewis, Chesterton, Kreeft)

Christian Studies

I believe in another world ... I

an essay by Magdalena Collum

"My education has awakened my soul to ... the true, the good, and the beautiful."

hear it sing in Plato and Dover Beach. I see it in Cezanne and mist-shrouded mountains. I touch it with sweaty fingers on violin strings still ringing with the last chord of Stravinsky’s Firebird. I cry. Seven years of homeschool, then five at a classical Christian school, have taught me to recognize perfect beauty in life’s imperfections. My education has awakened my soul to the presence of perfection, to the true, the good, and the beautiful. That is my essential story. In my first memory of that other world, I was ten, standing in my bedroom listening to Monti’s Czardas, when a certain passionate bit of melody exploded inside me. It was painfully, agonizingly beautiful— not beautiful like a daisy, but transcendent beauty, a throbbing that echoed a near-sorrowful note in my breast. I wanted to scream along with the recording, or kick a wall, or throw something—anything to be part of what I heard. Retrieving my own instrument from my bed, I played the lovely melody, wanting so badly to put everything I felt—intensity and pain and ecstasy—into those notes. I pressed my bow harder on the strings, as if by brute force I could reach that perfect world of beauty. It didn't work. My strings gave a shuddering crunch. I was left with an overwhelming sense of longing, an ache.

Introduction to Composition Grades 3+

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Poetry for the Grammar Stage Grades 3-6

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Heading Crying toGoes Dream Here Again • Poetry

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At first, it was a nameless ache. In my homeschool years, my days were filled with peaceful solitude: the simple joys of music (violin and piano practice), great literature (two required hours of reading time every afternoon frequently continued far longer), drawing (still-lifes and quasi-self-portraits), and nature. Our rural wooded property, in Mississippi and later in Kentucky, became the backdrop for hours of wandering and intricately imagined dramas. No one taught me that school was supposed to be boring, so I was not bored. I became enchanted by learning. And I began to feel the strange pain associated with intense beauty; without knowing what it was, I fell in love with that feeling. My relationship with the other world had begun. In seventh grade I started at a small, classical Christian school which developed in me a sensitivity to the three great medieval principles. I learned about truth from Aristotle, goodness from Augustine, and beauty from the Latin of the Aeneid. I began to connect truth and goodness to the haunting glimpses of transcendent beauty I still experienced: reading the recognition scene in Oedipus Rex; discussing the existence of God for hours at a debate tournament; listening, entranced, as my calculus teacher explained the scarily perfect, seemingly coincidental relationship between the antiderivative and the integral. It felt as

it did at age ten—the fluttering heart, the exhilaration, the lingering hurt. And still, I loved the hurt. I came to name that ache as a longing for a better place. In Plato’s Forms and Dante’s Divine Comedy, I encountered the idea that earthly creation only reflects the perfection of a heavenly realm. Then we read The Tempest. When Caliban described the beauty of his dreams, exclaiming, “when I waked/ I cried to dream again," I recognized his dream world as the presence I felt that caused the ache—the way things should be, but weren't quite. Caliban’s dream world, Dante’s Ninth Sphere, Plato’s Forms, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in capital letters—whatever the name, that’s the source of all I love and weep for: music, the perfect prayer; calculus, whose order and coherence point to a deeper structure; Shakespeare and Socrates because I agree with Keats—“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.” All beauty and goodness whisper the truth of my other world to me. My goal for my college education and beyond is simple: I want to encounter and pursue the things that make me, like Caliban, cry to dream again. I believe in another world—and that makes all the difference in this one. Miss Collum is a student at Highlands Latin School in the class of 2014. This essay was her college admissions essay. She was accepted to Princeton last November.

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The Elizabethan to the Augustan Age Grades 7+

Renaissance and Augustan poets sought to craft verse with excellence and formality. Their aim was to create poetry by imitation—first to grasp the essential meaning of an experience, and then to convey the central idea in a recognized and appropriate form. This could well be the apex of English poetry: Spencer, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, et al.

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Four guidelines for viewers who plan to see the film adaptation of this Tolkien classic.

Recognize variations & what they do.

To properly evaluate anything, basic knowledge precedes critical thinking. Viewers who have read Tolkien's stories have the basic knowledge necessary to evaluate the films. By knowing the original story, one can identify what is different in the adaptations. Unfortunately, many viewers may fail to critically analyze the films because they assume that variations from the original must be bad. But sometimes variations can bring out features in a story that may have been missed. For example, one of the gems in Tolkien's Hobbit is his characterization of the wood elves. They are "more dangerous and less wise" than higher elves. The elf-king is suspicious, quicktempered, and has a weakness for treasure; the wood elves are people who have become "darkened" and wild. Yet, Tolkien's description of them inspires good will and sympathy, rather than dislike: In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon, but loved best the stars; and they wandered in the great forests that grew tall in lands that are now lost ... after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk. Still elves they were and remain, and that is Good People.

A complaint often made about Jackson's recent installment, The Desolation of Smaug, is the addition of the elf maiden Tauriel. While some aspects of her character may warrant protest, others serve to highlight peculiarities about the wood elves: They are rustic yet lofty, harboring a great love for the stars, and possessing a latent light within that is bright to friend and bitter to foe. Jackson's film captures these qualities well, delivering a sense of the elves' loftiness as well as their earthiness. A film adaptation can never serve as an exact representation of its literary counterpart, nor should it. Rather than attempting a word-for-word or scenefor-scene literalism, a good adaptation highlights and elaborates the book's best parts. A careful viewer will recognize variations, but he will also ask, "What are the variations doing?" In some cases, they reward us with new and clearer vision.

Watch for moments of recovery.

One of the greatest benefits found in Tolkien's story is â&#x20AC;&#x153;recovery,â&#x20AC;? the regaining of a clear view of life and the world. Adults are inevitably tempted to trivialize familiar objects that were once desirable but now drab:

The Hobbit & other Memoria Press literature guides on pp. 50-51

Brett Vaden holds a B.A. in Biblical Languages from Moody Bible Institute, an M.Div. from Southern Seminary, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology. He has taught at Highlands Latin School and Memoria Press Online Academy. Find more from Brett at Philomythois.com.

...The things that are trite, or (in a bad sense) familiar, are the things that we have appropriated, legally or mentally. We say we know them. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.

Recovery is especially for adults. Everything is new for young children because they have not yet ceased to see wonder in the world, having a fascination with even the most mundane, prosaic objects: a roll of toilet paper, a bouncing ball, bath water. Adults continually need help to recover a sense of the supernatural in nature. The natural universe was made supernaturally, and although we can discover and learn much about creation, we will never fully comprehend God or His marvels. Works of fantasy like Tolkien’s books and Jackson’s films can help adults wipe the cobwebs off well-worn things, to regard them with renewed wonderment. As one example, the recent film focuses on the art of healing during a scene where an herb is used to counteract a poisoned arrow-wound. In the scene, while it is clear that the herb is necessary for the cure, the healing is unmistakably supernatural; through use of special effects, viewers glimpse a power at work beyond the potency of nature. In this scene, one can recover the truth that human physicians are not the only healers; God is the one who "heals all your diseases" (Psalm 103:3). The film adaptations offer several moments of recovery like this, and careful viewers will do well to ask, "Where is truth being recovered?"

Judge the spiritual elements.

Tolkien called fantasy a perilous realm. In a world where the boundary between nature and the supernatural is blurred, serious spiritual truths or falsehoods may be encountered. The more powerfully and vividly this realm is portrayed, the more dangerous the fantasy becomes for the unwary. Jackson's film achieves an impressive sense of realism in its depiction of evil: The spiders of Mirkwood are horrifying and Smaug is truly stupendous. Having viewed the film twice, I am especially struck by one spiritually suffused scene: Gandalf's encounter with the Necromancer. In the scene, the dark power of the Necromancer subdues the good wizard, and as his shadow quells Gandalf's resistance, the Necromancer taunts, "There is no light that can defeat darkness." It is likely that many viewers will pass over the

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Be alert to vice and virtue.

Tolkien said that fantasy presents man through the "Mirror of scorn and pity." A good fairystory reveals that man is weak and broken, in need of saving from his own vice; for this reason, the best works of fantasy will reveal the consequence of vice as well as the hope of virtue. Virtue is rewarded with 'eucatastrophe': "a sudden and miraculous grace ... giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief." This is the happy ending, when evil is overcome by good. Fantasy, however, does not deny the depth or weight of vice; goodness is most deeply felt when one has faced the evil in oneself and overcome it. That is why one must evaluate how seriously the films treat vice and virtue. Neither should be treated playfully or used to merely entertain. A slew of decapitated and arrow-ridden orcs should not appear silly, but sobering. The film's fight scenes often veer into banality, but viewers will find profound character development in Bilbo and Thorin, who subtly display sin's danger and virtue's hope. Viewers who wish to be alert to these points may ask, "What are the consequences of vice and the rewards of virtue?"

Conclusion: A mistaken assumption about fantasy is that it is primarily for children. Tolkien thought otherwise: “If fairy-story as a kind is worth reading at all it is worthy to be written for and read by adults. They will, of course, put more in and get more out than children can." The same can be said of Jackson’s films: If it is worth watching (and so far the box office says that it is), then it is worth an adult's careful attention. The more viewers put into the films, the more they will get out them.

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